Whatever happened to those distributed annonymous webproxy projects that were started several years ago? I seem to remember one done by the hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (the makers of Back Oriface) but I never really saw anything materalize.
The problem with normal proxy services (anonymizer.com, etc) is that they can easily be blocked by government black lists on DNS and IP addresses.
Why are these ISPs trying to get rid of paying customers again? I'd bet that a large percentage of their users would have no use for the Internet without blogs and such.
Because the government is forcing them to. I'm sure the ISPs don't want to do this, but when a government fears a loss of power due to the rampant flow of information, they need to do something to stiffle that flow of information.
Remember how China blocked google? Now google censors itself so that the Chinese government will allow it to continue (or at least it was censoring itself... maybe it's been opened back up?)
yeah, but it doesn't seem to link to what it used to link to, probably a cookie or form issue... I had done a search on "X800 XT" and meant to post the results. It worked when I clicked it immediately after posting, but I also hadn't closed firefox since running the intial search...
As I watch people going to the front window in our office to trigger the remote starters on their cars (it's 20F here today)
Wow, talk about different worlds. When it's 20F here most people aren't even wearing hats and mittens yet, let alone warming their car before they start to drive... We do that about the time it hits 0F.
How can people ignore the enviroment and first think of expanding their country after the ice caps melt. People need to see that alot of countries wont exsist in a few years.
Well, if they're afraid their country won't exist in a few years, that's a very good reason to consider expanding their country. That way at least they'll have some country after the ice caps melt...
and anyone who disagrees will get modbombed by trolls.
That's not true. I still pretend that Linux and Mozilla are perfect and that windows is the only operating system with security flaws, and my post that states something to that effect is currently moderated troll...
I want you all to read this very carefully: Nothing is free
Apparently sometimes iPods are free... Wired ran a similar story in august and the author really seemed to think the "scheme" was legit. According to the Wired.Com story, Gratis's privacy policy is pretty air tight, and I personally haven't recieved any spam as a result of signing up.
That said, if anyone wants to help me get one, and a gmail invite for yourself in the process...
yeah, and we had the kind he linked to in my elementary school in the stalls, but the image of a standard toilet mounted sideways onto the wall with water spilling out was very comical to me.
No. BPL sends a radio signal not over the transmission wire, but inside the electro magnetic field surrounding a high voltage line, similar to how a light bounces inside of a FiberOptic Cable.
The problem is that some of this radio signal can leak out. I assume the problem would mostly be at the "Telephone Poles" that hold up the the line, as those electrical transformers they have up there could break up the nice cylindrical EMF, but I really don't know what causes the signal to leak out.
But you are right, interferance is the big concern, and it has the ham radio association up in arms as the fequency used can interfere with shortwave (ie, intercontinental radio transmissions) and many emergancy broadcast type signals. How much interference is released appears to be very debatable. Looking at the AARL's Website doesn't really have proof that interference will be a problem, just mentions that they've show interference in lab conditions and through using calculations of signal leakage etc that it will be a huge probablem. AARL has some good information about BPL with links to howstuff works and other sources as well.
The problem is that Windows blindly trusts what the BIOS returns for the drive parameters. A smart OS can ignore the BIOS settings if they don't match what the drive itself returns. It can also look at the partition table and use those settings instead of what the BIOS reports, if that makes more sense.
Windows XP doesn't blindly trust it, it completely ignores it. For a while I had a 6GB drive that only had NT Loader on it to boot XP off my 120GB that was disabled in the bios (cause the bios couldn't recognize it.) Showed up as C in WinXP.
The alternative is to set your drive up with a jumper so it tells the bios it's smaller, then install one of those drive utilities that commonly comes with Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital drives, etc. Drive tells the bios it's 30GB, bios attemps to boot from the drive and the drive utility loads, basically a second bios stored on the HD. Drive utility tells any OS that cares to question it the true size of the drive. This was necessary for Win9X, but not for WinXP provided you have someway to boot the from the drive (a floppy or CD boot redirect will also work.. you know, those CDs that let you either boot from the CD or boot from the HD? Those are often good at bypassing what the bios reports...)
Oh, you mean the guys on the street corners selling the CDs pressed in the large CD factories in SE Asia?
If Pirated CD sales (from large scale CD factories, not burned copies, if you read the article) are becoming bigger than legal CD sales, maybe P2P isn't quite as big of a problem as 21 large scale factories in Russia and many more in SE Asia supplying the rest of the world...
However, if that little app becomes as popular as Kazaa or BitTorrent, you can bet they will be gunning for your program; they won't care if it is 15 lines or 150000 lines.
And then as soon as they start gunning for your program, 30 others will pop up and at least 5 of them will become just as popular as yours was, thus making it pointless to have gunned down the initial program; you just made the problem worse.
Quoting the author of TinyP2P "P2P can be simple and written very quickly, so to try to ban or prevent the technology is not feasible."
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They can use a proxy to surf the web.
Whatever happened to those distributed annonymous webproxy projects that were started several years ago? I seem to remember one done by the hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (the makers of Back Oriface) but I never really saw anything materalize.
The problem with normal proxy services (anonymizer.com, etc) is that they can easily be blocked by government black lists on DNS and IP addresses.
Why are these ISPs trying to get rid of paying customers again? I'd bet that a large percentage of their users would have no use for the Internet without blogs and such.
Because the government is forcing them to. I'm sure the ISPs don't want to do this, but when a government fears a loss of power due to the rampant flow of information, they need to do something to stiffle that flow of information.
Remember how China blocked google? Now google censors itself so that the Chinese government will allow it to continue (or at least it was censoring itself... maybe it's been opened back up?)
yeah, but it doesn't seem to link to what it used to link to, probably a cookie or form issue... I had done a search on "X800 XT" and meant to post the results. It worked when I clicked it immediately after posting, but I also hadn't closed firefox since running the intial search...
Your link is significantly better.
As I watch people going to the front window in our office to trigger the remote starters on their cars (it's 20F here today)
Wow, talk about different worlds. When it's 20F here most people aren't even wearing hats and mittens yet, let alone warming their car before they start to drive... We do that about the time it hits 0F.
Too bad the Canadian military has almost no way of patrolling our northern borders and coastline.
That's because they're preparing to invade America...
Then who will you ship to
Mutant smog people?
which could have drastic consequences for nesting seabirds
Not to mention the effects this could have on Santa's Workshop and band of midg... errm... elves.
I predict all hell will break loose when dick chenney dies
Really? I expect things to get better...
How can people ignore the enviroment and first think of expanding their country after the ice caps melt. People need to see that alot of countries wont exsist in a few years.
Well, if they're afraid their country won't exist in a few years, that's a very good reason to consider expanding their country. That way at least they'll have some country after the ice caps melt...
Do you live in Poland?
and anyone who disagrees will get modbombed by trolls.
That's not true. I still pretend that Linux and Mozilla are perfect and that windows is the only operating system with security flaws, and my post that states something to that effect is currently moderated troll...
Well, it's only a local exploit for one thing, so good like getting rampant Blaster style viruses based on it..
Second, it'll probably be patched rather quickly.
Third, it's one of a few holes, compared to the one of many holes found in windows...
Why is it every nearly Linux flaw is locally exploitable, where as every nearly every Windows flaw is remotely exploitable?
Maybe Microsoft figures most companies already do a good job of securing their physical servers...
5. ATI's Radeon X800 series of video cards
/really/ call that vaporware??
Vaporware?... Um, Hello??
Newegg has 1 out of 20 manufactures in stock... can you
I want you all to read this very carefully: Nothing is free
Apparently sometimes iPods are free... Wired ran a similar story in august and the author really seemed to think the "scheme" was legit. According to the Wired.Com story, Gratis's privacy policy is pretty air tight, and I personally haven't recieved any spam as a result of signing up.
That said, if anyone wants to help me get one, and a gmail invite for yourself in the process...
Here's a Registration Free Link for those who want to read the article selling their soul.
He was recently taken out by the Chinese Mafia... Apparently they didn't like his preachings
yeah, and we had the kind he linked to in my elementary school in the stalls, but the image of a standard toilet mounted sideways onto the wall with water spilling out was very comical to me.
No. BPL sends a radio signal not over the transmission wire, but inside the electro magnetic field surrounding a high voltage line, similar to how a light bounces inside of a FiberOptic Cable.
The problem is that some of this radio signal can leak out. I assume the problem would mostly be at the "Telephone Poles" that hold up the the line, as those electrical transformers they have up there could break up the nice cylindrical EMF, but I really don't know what causes the signal to leak out.
But you are right, interferance is the big concern, and it has the ham radio association up in arms as the fequency used can interfere with shortwave (ie, intercontinental radio transmissions) and many emergancy broadcast type signals. How much interference is released appears to be very debatable. Looking at the AARL's Website doesn't really have proof that interference will be a problem, just mentions that they've show interference in lab conditions and through using calculations of signal leakage etc that it will be a huge probablem. AARL has some good information about BPL with links to howstuff works and other sources as well.
When they have a real world proof of concept, then I'll care...
The problem is that Windows blindly trusts what the BIOS returns for the drive parameters. A smart OS can ignore the BIOS settings if they don't match what the drive itself returns. It can also look at the partition table and use those settings instead of what the BIOS reports, if that makes more sense.
Windows XP doesn't blindly trust it, it completely ignores it. For a while I had a 6GB drive that only had NT Loader on it to boot XP off my 120GB that was disabled in the bios (cause the bios couldn't recognize it.) Showed up as C in WinXP.
The alternative is to set your drive up with a jumper so it tells the bios it's smaller, then install one of those drive utilities that commonly comes with Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital drives, etc. Drive tells the bios it's 30GB, bios attemps to boot from the drive and the drive utility loads, basically a second bios stored on the HD. Drive utility tells any OS that cares to question it the true size of the drive. This was necessary for Win9X, but not for WinXP provided you have someway to boot the from the drive (a floppy or CD boot redirect will also work.. you know, those CDs that let you either boot from the CD or boot from the HD? Those are often good at bypassing what the bios reports...)
Oh, you mean the guys on the street corners selling the CDs pressed in the large CD factories in SE Asia?
If Pirated CD sales (from large scale CD factories, not burned copies, if you read the article) are becoming bigger than legal CD sales, maybe P2P isn't quite as big of a problem as 21 large scale factories in Russia and many more in SE Asia supplying the rest of the world...
However, if that little app becomes as popular as Kazaa or BitTorrent, you can bet they will be gunning for your program; they won't care if it is 15 lines or 150000 lines.
And then as soon as they start gunning for your program, 30 others will pop up and at least 5 of them will become just as popular as yours was, thus making it pointless to have gunned down the initial program; you just made the problem worse.
Quoting the author of TinyP2P
"P2P can be simple and written very quickly, so to try to ban or prevent the technology is not feasible."
Maybe. But I'm pretty sure p2p usage also rose this year, or at least stayed the about same
But by going after little Susie or gramma they can make the claim that they're doing something about piracy...
Oh, and they can't if they shut down a large scale CD manufacturing plant in SE Asia?